Since my last quarterly update, companies across nearly every sector have experienced significant transformation—whether it’s a more aggressive focus on profitability or a shift in product strategy due to the acceleration of generative AI (GenAI). Thematically, however, one thing has … Read more
The RDF-star Working Group has published the following 16 First Public Working Drafts, which represent the first milestone in the update of the RDF and SPARQL families of specification towards version 1.2: RDF 1.2 Concepts and Abstract Syntax defines an abstract … Read more
This release contains new libraries and functionality, along with numerous bug fixes and documentation improvements. Highlights are listed below, or you can see the full list of individual commits here, and the full list of resolved issues here. Note, these … Read more
February 6th, 2023 In 2017, we posted the strategy for .NET Languages at Microsoft as a blog post. Today, we’re publishing an updated version of the .NET Language Strategy at Microsoft Learn. It has been a long time since we … Read more
For many years, Samsung solid-state drives (SSDs) were among the most reliable components in our workstations. We wrote about this and praised their incredibly low failure rates many times, but something changed in the last year. We started to see … Read more
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap seconds, though I have been tweeting on the topic fairly frequently: see my page on date, time, and leap seconds for an index of threads. But … Read more
This is an update to my previous post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34189717 . Stripe has resolved the issue and everything has been released. I told the contacts at Stripe that I would do a write up about what happened from my point of … Read more
As you might remember from a few months ago, there was a story going around that some economists just looooved to tell. The story had all sorts of attributes that you might expect would make economists happy, including a paradox … Read more
Over the last 15 years, we’ve worked hard to build a streaming service that’s easy to use, including for people who travel or live together. It’s great that our members love Netflix movies and TV shows so much they want … Read more
